Police Arrest 2 More In Shooting

NEWPORT NEWS — Police have arrested two more people in connection with the Sunday morning shooting of a teen-ager outside the McDonald's restaurant on Denbigh Boulevard.

Travis Benjamin Johnson, a 19-year-old from Newport News, and an unidentified 17-year-old were charged Tuesday for their part in the wounding of James Pyer, said police spokeswoman Lynn James.

Police earlier arrested Floyd C. Daniels, 19, of Newport News, in the shooting. All three suspects are charged with malicious wounding and illegal use of a firearm, though Johnson is believed to be the gunman, James said.

Police said Pyer, 15, was one of several youths in the restaurant as the McDonald's was closing around midnight Saturday. The group went outside to the parking lot, where they spotted a man in a car carrying a gun. The boys began running away after they couldn't get back into the restaurant, which had closed. The car followed them, and Pyer was shot in the back and side.

James said police still had no details on just what sparked the shooting.